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Rockefeller Foundation United States: New York City: $6.3 billion 1913 [35] 33 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation United States: New York City: $6.2 billion 1969 [18] 34 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation United States: Chicago: $6 billion 1970 [18] 35 Robert Bosch Foundation Germany: Stuttgart: $6 billion €5.3 billion 1964 [36] 36
The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. [3] The foundation was created by Standard Oil magnate John D. Rockefeller ("Senior") and son "Junior", and their primary business advisor, Frederick Taylor Gates, on May 14, 1913, when its charter was granted by New York. [4]
David Walter Kaiser (July 27, 1969 – July 15, 2020) was an American philanthropist and president of the Rockefeller Family Fund, known for his environmental activism. [1] He was a grandson of David Rockefeller, the great grandson of American financer John D. Rockefeller Jr. and great-great-grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller. [2]
The ETA, designed by the Rockefeller Foundation and other groups, also aims to accelerate the shift away from coal by using funds from what they say are high-quality carbon credits, and could ...
Stephen B. Heintz is an American nonprofit executive and public policy expert. Since 2001, he has served as president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a family foundation with an endowment of approximately $1.2 billion that advances social change for a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. [1]
Elon Musk looks on, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. - Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
TIME spoke with Rajiv Shah about his new book 'Big Bets' and how to think more ambitiously about addressing the planet's problems.
In April 1952, the Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations (or just the Cox Committee Investigation), led by Edward E. Cox, of the House of Representatives began an investigation of the "educational and philanthropic foundations and other comparable organizations which are exempt from federal taxes to determine whether they were using their resources ...